NASA Will Carry Your Name On a Chip To Mars (theverge.com) 50
NASA will etch your name onto a silicon chip that will be carried to Mars by a rover in 2020:
An anonymous reader quotes the Verge: The rover's primary mission is to get us closer to answering that fundamental question: did Mars ever host alien life? The robot is equipped with tools and instruments that will help scientists figure out if the planet may have hosted life in the past. On top of that, the rover will also be drilling and collecting samples of Martian dirt. It'll then leave those samples on the ground, where they could potentially be picked up someday by another spacecraft and brought back to Earth. And while the Mars 2020 rover is doing all of this, your name could be along for the ride.
If you send in your name sometime before September 30th, NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will etch it onto a silicon chip with an electron beam, and then the rover will carry it on its journey. The names are going to be pretty teeny, though -- about one-thousandth the width of a human hair. That's small enough so that more than a million names can be included on a single chip as big as a dime -- but big enough for any Martian microbes to read (only kidding... Martians can't read).
An anonymous reader quotes the Verge: The rover's primary mission is to get us closer to answering that fundamental question: did Mars ever host alien life? The robot is equipped with tools and instruments that will help scientists figure out if the planet may have hosted life in the past. On top of that, the rover will also be drilling and collecting samples of Martian dirt. It'll then leave those samples on the ground, where they could potentially be picked up someday by another spacecraft and brought back to Earth. And while the Mars 2020 rover is doing all of this, your name could be along for the ride.
If you send in your name sometime before September 30th, NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will etch it onto a silicon chip with an electron beam, and then the rover will carry it on its journey. The names are going to be pretty teeny, though -- about one-thousandth the width of a human hair. That's small enough so that more than a million names can be included on a single chip as big as a dime -- but big enough for any Martian microbes to read (only kidding... Martians can't read).
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Can we send "Little Bobby Tables"'s name to tMars?
https://medium.com/@johntecker... [medium.com]
In 25 Million years (Score:5, Funny)
Long after the human race has disappeared, a new intelligent race will evolve and bankrupt themselves in an attempt to decode the hidden information, surely to contain many cosmic secrets, on that alien artifact they found on Mars.
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someone is sure to submit "MIckey Mouse" or similar as their name, the aliens will eventually find the animations and think Mickey is our god.
Re:In 25 Million years (Score:4, Funny)
the aliens will eventually find the animations and think Mickey is our god.
The aliens better lawyer up: the copyright over Mickey Mouse will continue to have been extended over those 25 million years !
No-fly list... (Score:2, Funny)
Hrm.. Would be funny, on a certain level of funny, to get a hold of the 'no-fly list' and include all the names listed on it.
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Too late! (Score:2)
My name is already several times on Mars, due to the same trick done a couple of times by the Planetary society, years ago.
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NASA essentially do this on every launch, don't they?
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Third party scripts galore (Score:4, Interesting)
With the amount of third party scripts in that website, it won't just be martians looking at your name.
Who cares? (Score:1)
Amanda Hugandkiss (Score:1)
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Put my name there... (Score:1)
Valetine Michael Smith
Who cares (Score:2)
It is a name. Not anything that really describes me. Having my name somewhere is not any kind of immortality or the like.
Lawsuit (Score:2)
I wonder... (Score:3)
Space Junk (Score:2)